News & Notes Volume XI, No. 20

October 28, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Paper Money of Singapore

• History of Singapore Currency (NLB).
• History of Modern Singapore Dollars (Singapore Banknotes Corner). From 2025.
• Yusof Ishak: A Symbol of Unity in Singaporean History (Banknote World). From 2024.
• A History of Money in Singapore (Geldscheine-online, in German). Review of book, published 2021 in English.
• Singapore - Banknote History (Banknote World). From 2021.
• Singapore Banknote Designer Profiled (NNP/E-Sylum). From 2017.
• Currency of the Straits Settlements, 1865-1921 (Sharen Kaur). From 2011.
• Discovering the Rich History Behind Singapore Currency (Lion Heartlanders).
• Singapore, Michigan, and its Bank of Singapore (Paper Money). From 2016.

Currency Coming and Going

• Inflation Impacts Iran's Currency (Numismatic News).
• Switzerland's design change plans (Numismatic News).
• Can Russians be Trusted With Dollars? (The Moscow Times).
• Corporation of Foreign Bondholders (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• British Guyana: The Toucan / Waterfall Banknote (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• "No One Will Know" (Prague Morning).
• How Nigeria pays its civil servants (Vanguard).
• Greek man dispensed banknotes (Fackti).
• A pledge to place the Nepal Sambat on currency (Nepal News).
• Guatemala denies banknote retirement (MRI Bankers' Guide).

The Business of Collecting

• Collection Inspiration: Lizards (PMG).
• Heritage offers notes from the Peh Family Collection (PMG).
• Visiting the Higgins Museum (E-Sylum).
• Bradbury Wilkinson Banknote Designs and Essays (E-Sylum).
• Archives International Sale 107 Selections (E-Sylum).
• The "Ultimate" Rainbow $20 Legal Tender note (Coinweek).
• A "Nearly Perfect" $5 Legal Tender note (Coinweek).
• Selections from Stack's auction of the L. E. Bruun Collection (Coinweek). Also here (E-Sylum).
• Stack's offers a rare remainder note on the Banco de Bilbao (Stacks Bowers).
• Giuseppe Verdi on Italy's 1000 lire banknote (Banknote World).
• Turkmenistan banknote featuring Tughril I, founder of the Seljuk Empire (Banknote World).
• Tadeusz Kościuszko on Poland's currency (Banknote World).
• Collecting Postage Stamp Envelopes (Numismatic News).
• Trigometric auction includes Malaysian note with solid 8s serial number (PMG).
• Spink sells a pair of rare British India notes (PMG).
• Note of the Month: Scotland 20 pounds (PMG).
• South Ossetian commemorative banknote on display (PEC).
• South Ossetia Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).

New Banknote Issues

• Taiwan plans for "new banknotes with ecological materials" (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (TVBS).
• New 500,000 rial "Iran Cheque" (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Collectorama Coin Show, Lakeland, FL, Oct 30-Nov 1 (The Collectorama Show).
• Grapevine Coin Show, Grapevine, TX, Oct. 31-Nov. 2 (Coinshows-USA).
• Phoenix Coin Club Show, Mesa, AZ, Nov. 1-2 (Phoenix Coin Club).
• RNA Coin Show, Rochester, NY, Nov. 1-2 (Coinshows-USA).
• Nuphilex, Pointe-Claire, QC, Nov 1-2 (Canadian Coin News).
• Hidalgo Coin Club Show, McAllen, TX, Nov. 1-2 (Hidalgo Coin Club).
• Vienna Coin and Stamp Show, Vienna, VA, Nov. 1-2 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      November 1

• Santa Maria, CA; Tampa, FL; Owensboro, KY; Westminster, MD; Kalamazoo, MI; St. Anthony, MN; Canton, OH
  Allentown, PA; Knoxville, TN

​​      November 2

• Anaheim, CA; Apopka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Marietta, GA; Orland Park, IL; Urbana, IL; Decatur, IN; Dedham, MA
  Livonia, MI; Wyandotte, MI; Maple Grove, MN; Lindenwold, NJ; Parsippany, NJ; Albany, NY; Chillicothe, OH
  Fairview Park, OH; Scarborough, ON; Meadville, PA; Brookfield, WI

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, October 28 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, October 28 (HA)
• Lyn Knight Dean Oakes Auction, Parts II-III, October 29 (Lyn Knight).
• Stack's L. E. Bruun Collection Auction, October 28 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Copenhagen Sale, October 28 (Stack's Bowers).
• Archives International Auction 107, October 29 (AIA).
• Heritage Fall Confederate Currency Showcase Auction, November 2 (HA).
• The Basel Collection of U.S. Paper Money, November 2 (GreatCollections).
• The Concordia Collection of Kansas National Bank Notes, November 9 (GreatCollections).
• The Woodside Collection of Cuban Paper Money, November 9 (GreatCollections).
• Stack's Showcase Auction, Session 6, November 13 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage U.S. Currency Error Showcase Auction, November 16 (HA).
• The Lightning Bolt Collection of U.S. Paper Money (November 23 (Great Collections).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Whitman Winter Expo, Baltimore, MD, November 6-8 (Whitman Expos).
• 71st FUN Show, Orlando, FL, January 8-11, 2026 (FUN).
• 54th NYINC, New York City, January 16-18, 2026 (NYINC).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Koenig & Bauer's partnership with Bosch (Print21).
• The Fragility of Digital Payments (Cash Essentials).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• The Future of Cash Conference, Warsaw, Poland, November 3-5 (Future of Cash).
• High Security Printing - Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-3 (Reconnaissance).
• High Security Printing -EMEA, Rabat, Morocco, March 2-4, 2026 (Reconnaissance).
• High Security Printing-Latin America, Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 1-3, 2026 (Reconnaissance).
• Security Designers Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, September 7-10. 2026 (Security Designers Form).

From the Annals of Crime

• Counterfeit Detection: Turkey 10 Livres (PMG).

Websites to Like 

(in no particular order)

• Paper Money Forum (Numismatic discussion threads)
• Newman Numismatic Portal (Digital numismatic library)
• Numismatic Bibliomania Society (Includes E-Sylum, the weekly online complement to the NBS's journal, The Asylum)
• The American Revenue Association (Hobby website).
• The Souvenir Card Collectors Society
• New York Toll Script and Tokens (Collector website)..
• The American Historical Print Collectors Society (Hobby website).
• International Bank Note Society (useful features even for non-members).
• The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
• The Higgins Museum (the one in Okoboji, IA, not Worcester, MA)
• Cigar History Museum's coupon gallery
• Boordgeld (Dutch ships' money)
• Depression Scrip (emergency money of the 1930s, and more)
• Wisconsin Depression Scrip
• Caishen's Temple-Asia Money
• Elkader Auction House
• Minnesota Nice
• The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock).
• COINWeek (numismatic aggregator with some paper money content).
• MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes).
• Mujand (fantasy banknote maker).
• Alternative Banknotes and Coins (Alternatehistory). Fantasy thread.
• Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
• Banknote News (roundup of news and promotional website for The Banknote Book).
• Mintage World (online museum of Indian numismatics).
• Chattanooga Money (site details historical episodes in Chattanooga, Tennessee's monetary and banking history)
• My Georgia Collection (collector site devoted to "Georgia State Notes, Obsolete Currency, Bonds, and Alternative Scrip")
• Banknotesworld ("THE German-language Banknote forum") Discussion threads and more.
• Scotsbanknotes
• Cash Essentials (Industry website devoted to promoting cash usage).
• Kuster's Engineering (Company website). Your expert in currency disintegration.
• PYMNTS.com (Industry website).
• Currency Research (Industry website).
• International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website).
• De La Rue (Company website).
• Giesecke & Devrient (Company website).
• Our Passports (travel documents and other ephemera)
• Social Money (a Flickr album of photographs illustrating modern complementary currencies, heavy on Argentina).
• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (search for banknotes etc.).
• Where's George? (currency tracking project).
• Banknoter
• Numismondo
• CoinsWeekly, numismatic website run by Ursula Kampmann. German-language version is here. Content is not identical.
• Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique  d'Argenteuil)
• AFEP   Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
• Monnaies Locales Complementaires
• Our Money (Eurozone currency).
• The Ephemera Society of America (Hobby website, with archived articles on ephemera topics)
• A Library of Scrip and Local Currency
• Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
• Pakistani Currency